---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8667"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8667"
heading: "Changing category or type: limitations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8667"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part IV — General Administration"
  - "Chapter 863 — Naval Vessels"
---

# §8667. Changing category or type: limitations


Unless they have been specifically made available for the purpose, funds appropriated for the repair or alteration of naval vessels may not be used to make repairs or alterations of any vessel that would change its category or type.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 449, § 7297; renumbered § 8667, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(2), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 7297 | 34 U.S.C. 490. | June 12, 1948, ch. 452, § 2, 62 Stat. 382. |

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7297 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.